Vampire Weekend announces 2025 tour, Saratoga Springs show. Get tickets

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Vampire Weekend.After a sprawling nationwide trek in 2024, Ezra Koenig and co. are coming back for a second leg of their ‘Only God Was Above Us Tour’ this year.From May through September, the indie rock icons will headline amphitheaters and arts centers all over North America with special guests Geese and the Billy Joel cover band Turnstiles joining them on select dates.That includes a stop at Saratoga Springs’ Broadview Stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, June 4.In addition to the international run, the group will also headline the Pasadena, CA’s Just Like Heaven Festival (May 10), Boston’s Boston Calling (May 23), Manchester, TN’s Bonnaroo (June 15), East Aurora, NY’s Borderland Festival (Sept.

12-14), Richmond, VA’s Iron Blossom Festival (Sept. 20-21) and Ocean City, MD’s Oceans Calling (Sept. 27).Koenig, bassist Chris Tomson and drummer Chris Baio officially announced the forthcoming outing on the seventh episode of their “Vampire Campfire” podcast where the trio sit around a daytime campfire.“Because [Just Like Heaven] is going to be an indie-oriented festival, we gotta think about our set list,” they said on the podcast. “We could do an all indie-request block…and if you don’t request an indie song, you have to leave.”“I had an idea to do a salute to indie.